Bug#1058924: gnome-software: does not list or find any apt package

[Rémi Letot]

Package: gnome-software
Version: 45.2-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-Cc: hobbes at poukram.net

Dear Maintainer,

when I launch gnome-software, only six applications are listed as available in 
the main screen: devdocs, diagrams, excalidraw, snapdrop, squoosh, and 
stackedit. 

None of these are there via apt, and if I click on them I can't get any
information or install them. 

Also, if I search for apt available applications (brasero, abiword,...), they
don't show up. 

I started gnome-software in verbose mode, and here's what appears in my 
journal when I search:

déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: pushing back entry for overview
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x55d01ca7abf0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x7f75e8001cd0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x55d01ca802f0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: using fuse: 0
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Ignoring legacy AppStream catalog location '/var/lib/app-info'.
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading appstream path '/usr/share/swcatalog/xml'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: plugin 'packagekit' failed to list apps: Unsupported query
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: using fuse: 0
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: emitting global waiting
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: emitting global finished
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/usr/share/swcatalog/yaml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/usr/share/app-info/xml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/usr/share/app-info/xmls' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/usr/share/app-info/yaml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/var/cache/swcatalog/xml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/var/cache/swcatalog/yaml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/var/cache/app-info/xml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading appstream path '/var/cache/app-info/xmls'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/var/cache/app-info/yaml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Skipping appstream path '/var/lib/swcatalog/xml' as does not exist
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading appstream path '/var/lib/swcatalog/yaml'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading appdata path '/usr/share/metainfo'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading appdata path '/usr/share/appdata'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: appstream: Loading desktop path '/usr/share/applications'
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: ensuring /home/hobbes/.cache/gnome-software/appstream/components.xmlb
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: attempting to load /home/hobbes/.cache/gnome-software/appstream/components.xmlb
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: file: bea8f418-d563-4f82-e057-b8c0aead43cb, current:bea8f418-d563-4f82-e057-b8c0aead43cb, cached: (null)
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: loading silo with file contents
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: search took 0,347000ms
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: No apps to refine
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: running unknown with dedupe-flags=7, elapsed time since creation 22ms
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: no search results to show
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x55d01ca802f0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: plugin 'packagekit' failed to list apps: Unsupported query
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x55d01ca7abf0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: emitting global waiting
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: emitting global finished
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: Setting I/O priority of thread 0x7f75e8001cd0 to IDLE, 7
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: using fuse: 0
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: using fuse: 0
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: search took 1,401000ms
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: No apps to refine
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: running unknown with dedupe-flags=7, elapsed time since creation 1ms
déc 18 12:35:55 sphax gnome-software[3758]: no search results to show


I do get my installed apps in the corresponding section, and I can update.

Thanks,
-- 
Remi

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=fr_BE:fr
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii  appstream                                    1.0.1-1
ii  apt-config-icons                             1.0.1-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.40.0-4
ii  gnome-software-common                        45.2-1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    45.0-2
ii  libadwaita-1-0                               1.4.2-1+b1
ii  libappstream5                                1.0.1-1
ii  libc6                                        2.37-13
ii  libcairo2                                    1.18.0-1
ii  libfwupd2                                    1.9.10-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0                          2.42.10+dfsg-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.78.3-1
ii  libgtk-4-1                                   4.12.4+ds-3
ii  libgtk3-perl                                 0.038-3
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                               238-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           1.8.0-2
ii  libmalcontent-0-0                            0.11.1-1+b1
ii  libpackagekit-glib2-18                       1.2.8-1+b1
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.51.0+ds-3
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        123-3
ii  libsoup-3.0-0                                3.4.4-2
ii  libxmlb2                                     0.3.14-2
ii  packagekit                                   1.2.8-1+b1
ii  software-properties-gtk                      0.99.30-4

Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii  fwupd  1.9.10-1

Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn  apt-config-icons-hidpi         <none>
ii  gnome-software-plugin-flatpak  45.2-1
pn  gnome-software-plugin-snap     <none>

-- no debconf information